Notícias

• Grassroots organizations are settling new areas in the Brazilian Amazon amid disappointment that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been slow to jump-start the stalled land reform agenda.
• According to the federal land agency, Incra, about 145,000 people are inhabiting camps all over Brazil, waiting for a plot of land.
• In one of the Amazon’s deadliest regions, a group fighting for land was besieged by a dozen armed men hired by ranchers; even in established settlements, harassment by land grabbers and lack of government support drive settlers out of their plots.
• The stalling of the land reform agenda pushes Amazonian people further into the forest, driving the cycle of deforestation, or else to the outskirts of cities, where many struggle to make a living.

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• Macaúba, a palm tree found across the Americas, is tipped as a new biofuel feedstock to decarbonize transport and aviation. The macaúba palm produces an oil when highly refined that can be made into renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
• Bolstered by hype and billions of dollars of investment, companies are planning to plant hundreds of thousands of hectares on reportedly degraded land across Brazil. Firms are also investing in major refining facilities. This macaúba gold rush was triggered by major financial incentives from the Brazilian government.
• Macaúba’s potential green attributes are similar to jatropha, a once promising biofuel feedstock that bombed a decade ago. Macaúba is widespread but currently undomesticated. Whether macaúba plantations can achieve the yield and scale needed to help satisfy the world’s sustainable energy needs remains unknown.
• Industry proponents state that it can be produced sustainably with no land-use change or deforestation. But other analysts say that very much depends on how the coming boom, in Brazil and elsewhere, pans out.

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• Extreme weather in Rio de Janeiro is getting worse: recent years have brought record-breaking heat and rainfall to Brazil’s second-largest city, intensifying the risk of floods and landslides, particularly in vulnerable urban areas.
• Experts warn of “climate gentrification,” where urban development and inequality amplify disaster risk; more than 20% of Rio’s homes are in high-risk areas, many in precariously built communities on hill slopes or low-lying flood zones.
• Disaster prevention measures exist but fall short; while sirens provide some early warnings, experts stress the need for comprehensive urban reform, nature-based solutions like the “sponge city” design, and greater community involvement to truly mitigate risks.

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O PL de Jair Bolsonaro sediará no final deste mês mais um evento de comunicação voltado à direita, com a participação das plataformas Google e Meta — dona do Facebook, Instagram e WhatsApp — e a presença do ex-presidente e de outros quadros da legenda.

• A new report by Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) states that Casino Group’s beef supply chain could be linked to up to 526,459 hectares (about 1.3 million acres) of deforestation in Brazil between 2018 and 2023.
• The data are being used in a $64.1 million lawsuit filed in 2021 by environmental and Indigenous groups that accuse the French retailer of contributing to illegal deforestation.
• Among the plaintiffs are Indigenous communities from the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau territory in the Brazilian Amazon that have faced decades of land invasions by illegal cattle ranchers.

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• report cited

Casos em análise são de Tocantins e Santa Catarina; há ainda quatro possíveis ocorrências em criações de subsistência.

Ednaldo Rodrigues foi afastado da presidência da CBF pelo Tribunal de Justiça do Rio de Janeiro (TJ-RJ), que nomeou um interventor e determinou uma nova eleição.

Apesar do dado positivo, a perda de vegetação no país ainda é preocupante. Somente cinco estados concentram 65% da área desmatada no país.

The Brazilian government blocked 545 rural properties in the Amazonian state of Pará from selling crops and livestock both domestically and internationally, citing illegal deforestation, according to a May 6 announcement by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

The announcement marks one of Brazil’s largest uses of remote sensing to sanction agriculture activity associated with deforestation. The move signals a shift toward more aggressive antideforestation tactics. Instead of blocking, or embargoing, properties flagged for deforestation one by one, the government used satellite monitoring alerts to issue hundreds of penalties across a wide area all at once.

Most of the land now barred from markets lies near Castelo dos Sonhos district in Altamira, a municipality currently ranked as one of Brazil’s most violent. The region has seen multiple execution-style killings of environmental defenders and has high rates of deforestation.

“[The deforested areas] are embargoed with the aim of preventing new infractions, safeguarding environmental recovery and ensuring administrative processes see real results,” Jair Schmitt, the director of environmental protection at IBAMA, Brazil’s federal environmental agency, wrote in the order.

The 615 ranchers and farmers named in the order will have until June 6 to remove all livestock from the land.

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Três deputados foram suspensos temporariamente por participar da dança. Isso me faz gostar da bagunça do Congresso Nacional mais um pouco.

Argentina, Chile, Peru e Uruguai também serão contemplados com a medida, que entrará em vigor em 1º de junho deste ano.

Krispy Kreme viralizou no TikTok com rosquinhas 'instagramáveis' e atrai o público apaixonado pelo 'lifestyle' norte-americano. O g1 visitou o local.

O g1 esteve na loja na última sexta-feira (9) e conversou com pessoas que aguardaram ansiosas sob um sol de 30 °C para conseguir alguns donuts. O tempo de espera médio foi de 60 minutos.

Vereadora Marielle Franco e o motorista Anderson Gomes foram mortos em uma emboscada no Rio em 2018. Domingos e Chiquinho Brazão são acusados de serem os mandantes.

Três quilombolas de Salvaterra, no Marajó (PA), estão no PPDDH (Programa de Proteção aos Defensores de Direitos Humanos) do governo federal.O motivo é o conflito entre lideranças de quilombos e a Fazenda Boa Esperança, da família Marques, latifundiário.